adj.
1.of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language algonquin n.
1.a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada
2.family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
Idiom of the Day
learn (something) the hard way
to learn something that is difficult or unpleasant by one's own experience
The young man learned things the hard way when he went to jail for stealing the computer.